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NEW DELHI:Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday expressed satisfaction at the progress made in defence and security cooperation between India and Vietnam. During a meeting with Vietnam's Minister of National Defence Phung Quang Thanh, Modi recalled the successful visit of Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung to India in October 2014, an official release said here. Thanh briefed the prime minister about defence and security related developments in the India-Vietnam bilateral relationship.

NEW DELHI: A special court today directed the CBI to file on June 4, the progress report of its further probe in a coal blocks allocation case allegedly involving Rajya Sabha MP Vijay Darda. The court's order came after the agency said they have not received any information from the competent authority on the issue of granting sanction to prosecute a Coal Ministry official, L S Janoti , for his alleged role in the case. "It has been submitted that no information has yet been received from the competent authority regarding according of sanction to prosecute accused L S Janoti," Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar said.

NEW DELHI: The NITI Aayog is developing more than two dozen indicators to monitor and evaluate the progress of the Centre's flagship schemes and ideas in an effort aimed at targeting funds better and improving outcomes. The indicators will be a mix of assets created and services-based parameters that will help the Aayog track outcomes in the government's priority areas. There are more than 20 flagship schemes related to social security, financial inclusion, infrastructure creation, health and education, and food security along with the government's Skill India and Digital India initiatives, adding up to over Rs 2.5 lakh crore of public spending.

SHANGHAI: Pitching for cooperation between India and China, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said the two should together touch new heights of progress to eliminate poverty which will benefit the entire world as one-third of global population lives in the two countries. Launching the Centre for Gandhian & Indian Studies at Fudan University here, he said India and China have historical and civilizational ties and they can together create a world that serves the humanity.

With 40% of population still in poverty, subsidies will remain. The subsidy reform, therefore, means what subsidies & how they are targeted. The govt has done well on both the counts, removing subsidy on diesel and transitioning to direct benefit transfer to deliver LPG subsidy. But these have been easy ones, made possible by soft crude. The real challenge is politically sensitive food & fertiliser subsidies. There is not much clarity on these yet. ET Explains

BEIJING: China warned the leader of Taiwan's main pro-independence opposition party on Wednesday against engaging in activities promoting the island's independence while she is in the United States later this month. The remarks by China's Taiwan Affairs Office came two weeks before Tsai Ing-wen , chairwoman of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and a presidential contender in January elections, meets government officials, academics and overseas Taiwanese in the United States.

LOS ANGELES: Reality TV personality-singer Bobbi Kristina Brown , who has been in hospital for more than three months, has shown no signs of improvement, according to her grandmother Cissy Houston . Brown was found unresponsive in the bathtub at her home in Georgia when she was taken to hospital three months ago. Asked about the state of her granddaughter's health, Cissy said: "(It's) the same, she's not progressing at all. " However, Cissy insisted she's prepared for whatever happens to Bobbi in the coming weeks and months.

MOSCOW: India has said there is "steady progress" on Indo-Russia civil nuclear energy cooperation and the second unit of the Kudankulam project is "progressing satisfactorily" towards commissioning as the two countries aim to boost their strategic ties in spheres of space and energy. President Pranab Mukherjee , in Russia on a five-day visit, yesterday held a 45-minute meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in a "wide-ranging review of our bilateral cooperation", the Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement today.

NEW DELHI: Biocon today said two molecules for treating cancer and arthritis under the drug discovery programme with Mylan have entered global Phase 3 of clinical trials. The molecules are Pegfilgrastim (PEG-G-CSF) and Adalimumab. While the PEG-G-CSF trial is well underway the Adalimumab trial has been recently initiated, Biocon Ltd said in a statement. In addition, the phase 3 global clinical trial for Trastuzumab, aimed at treating breast cancer , is progressing in more than 100 sites around the world, it added.

BEIJING: China today said it was keen to strive for "more progress" on the resolution of the boundary dispute with India during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit here next week. "We are now in close communication with the Indian side on the preparations to host Prime Minister Modi in China. We believe with our joint efforts we can show Prime Minister Modi that we value China-India relations and his visit to China," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hua Chunying told a media briefing here.